Looks like we escaped at about the same time. But yeah, the XRT deejays saying "Tickets available at Ticketmaster, the Flip Side, or call the Horizon box office direct at..."
https://nypost.com/2021/02/27/bruce-meyers-inventor-of-the-dune-buggy-dead-at-94/ The guy who invented the venerable dune buggy has died.
I have rather mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I've admired the creativity of the various builders of the dune buggy. On the other hand, I mourn the loss of so many vintage Volkswagen betless whose frames were scavenged for use in dune buggies. A well-maintained pre-1968 beetle is a collector's item today.
Probably only notable to me, but I wanted to share. Jim Crockett, Jr., who as Vince McMahon's top competitor was an important part of the 1980s pro wrestling boom, passed away tonight at the age of 76. Fine article by Greg Oliver: https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2021/03/03/promoter-jim-crockett-jr-dead-at-76/
The more I learn about pro wrestling the more respect I have for the performers. I still can't stand watching it, but "fake" is the wrong word to describe their work.
Cliff Simon just died, he was an actor best known for his role as Baal in the Stargate series SG-1. https://www.gateworld.net/news/2021/03/stargate-actor-cliff-simon-passed-away-age-58/
'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler, probably the greatest boxer, pound for pound, of his generation, dead at 66.
In Memoriam; H.P. Lovecraft. August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937 (Original obit) Funeral services for Howard Phillip Lovecraft, student and writer of fiction, who died yesterday at Jane Brown Memorial Hospital, will be held Thursday at 12 o’clock in the chapel of Horace B. Knowles’s Sons, 187 Benefit Street. Burial will be in the family plot in Swan Point Cemetery. He was 46. Born in this city, Aug. 20, 1890, the only child of the late Winfield S. and Sarah P. Lovecraft, Mr. Lovecraft from early life was handicapped by poor health. Essentially a student and an omnivorous reader, he was able to take his place only from time to time in regular school classrooms with children of his own age but graduated from Hope Street high school and secured the equivalent of a college education from private tutors. His early recourse to the library of his grandfather , Whipple V. Phillips, at 454 Angell street in which he was turned loose to browse at will gave him the bend toward weird writing which was his hobby. In his autobiographs, which he wrote up to the day before he was admitted to the hospital last month, he related the importance to his life of the fairy tales and classical tales he read but six years of age. Besides his interest in the supernatural, he was a constant student of genealogy and of astronomy, and at one time, wrote a newspaper column on the latter subject. His days and nights for years were spent in writing in the library at 86 College Street, where he lived, in recent years, with his aunt, Mrs. Phillips Camwell, his sole survivor. As he neared the end of his life, he turned his scholarly interests to a study of his own physical condition and daily wrote minutely of his case for his physician’s assistance. His clinical notes ended only when he could no longer hold a pencil.
That's too funny. His grave is a few miles from my house and I just visited it a few weeks ago. I'd go back today but it's windy and freezing and there's probably a crowd. Always a few people around it on a regular day.
Ronald DeFeo Jr died at the Sullivan Correctional Institution last Friday at 69 years old. He was there since 1974, when he killed his entire family -mother, father, two sisters and two brother- and inspired one of the best horror books of all time; The Amityville Horror.
one of the most consequential burglars who ever burgled...also a tremendously iconic mustachioed bald man.
